What ‘Maga Neguma’ accountant revealed to FCID!
Oct 01, 2016
The FCID is investigating the irregularities that had been committed under the then economic development minister Basil Rajapaksa during the previous Rajapaksa regime.
A former accountant was summoned and questioned by the FCID in order to assist in the investigation. When he was asked to explain the voucher payments he had made on the instructions of the ex-minister, the accountant fainted and collapsed. Suspending his questioning until he recovers fully, the FCID summoned the present accountant at Maga Neguma.
Explaining to her as to what had happened to her predecessor when questioned, the FCID told her not to be frightened and to tell only what she knew without any fear. Promptly, she took a document out of her handbag and handed it over to FCID officials. That document said she was resigning from her position with immediate effect. When FCID officials explained to her that she had not reason to resign, she told them amidst tears, “I do not want to undergo what the previous accountant had to undergo. That is why I am resigning today. That is because what had happened then is still continuing. Therefore, I cannot pay for others’ sins. Ministers who did the wrong will change sides and escape. In the end, we the officers who obeyed their orders will have to waste our time in the remand custody and in courts. What happened then is happening without a change today too.”
Explaining to her as to what had happened to her predecessor when questioned, the FCID told her not to be frightened and to tell only what she knew without any fear. Promptly, she took a document out of her handbag and handed it over to FCID officials. That document said she was resigning from her position with immediate effect. When FCID officials explained to her that she had not reason to resign, she told them amidst tears, “I do not want to undergo what the previous accountant had to undergo. That is why I am resigning today. That is because what had happened then is still continuing. Therefore, I cannot pay for others’ sins. Ministers who did the wrong will change sides and escape. In the end, we the officers who obeyed their orders will have to waste our time in the remand custody and in courts. What happened then is happening without a change today too.”
